Education

Last month, I reported on this blog that the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce had approved a resolution supporting efforts to streamline operations at the Alamo Colleges, including a hotly contested idea to merge the district into one singly accredited system. (Four of the district’s colleges are independently accredited, and the newest is seeking […]
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The U.S. Department of Education has released a preview of student loan default rates using a more stringent standard, and the numbers don’t look good at for-profit colleges. Previously, colleges and universities were only required to report the two-year default rate, but the Education Department will begin to judge them on three-year default rates in […]
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On Sept. 15, Bruce Leslie lived what has to be a chancellor’s worst nightmare — or at least a very bad day. Faculty and staff from four of the five Alamo Colleges delivered an overwhelming vote of no confidence in his leadership, filling the boardroom that night with calls for Leslie to step down. Among […]
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Shaking off the post-Thanksgiving torpor with a rousing round of Wii Fit boxing? Maybe you should apply for college credit. Palo Alto College, one of the five Alamo Colleges, is now offering one of the nation’s first college-level online kinesiology courses using Nintendo’s Wii Fit, a video game in which players do yoga or aerobics, […]
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A committee of students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin has recommended a tuition hike of 3.95 percent each year over the next two years, “simply to balance the budget.” The hike is on top of a $65-per-semester fee to build a new Student Activities Center, approved by student voters in 2006. […]
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The Project on Student Debt ranked states and individual universities based on student debt levels, and one local college made the list. Students at the University of the Incarnate Word graduate with upwards of $35,000 in student loans, according to the report, ranking them among the highest debt private, non-profit universities in the nation. Reasons […]
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The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce supports a merger of the five independent institutions that make up the Alamo Colleges, including a hotly contested idea to seek single accreditation for the whole district, according to this statement. According to the statement, the chamber backs trustees’ broad goals to save money and operate more efficiently […]
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“Well, look at Britney (Spears), she can’t even sing.” As soon as those words left the mouth of Judy Libow, former vice president for radio promotions at Atlantic Records, someone in the audience gasped. “How could you?” the Britney fan asked, recoiling from her words. Libow softened. “You’re right,” she said. “It’s a personal thing, […]
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The Alamo Colleges has come a long way in the past few years, but communication is still the weakest link. That’s the opinion of Charles Conner, who stepped down from the board of the Alamo Colleges last month to retire to Padre Island with his wife, Bonnie. This week, Conner, 73, reflected on his seven-year […]
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Time Magazine has named Juliet García, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville, as one of the nation’s 10 best college presidents. Here’s an excerpt from an article by Time’s Gilbert Cruz: The first female Hispanic to lead a U.S. college or university, García takes pride in her young institution’s makeup: 93% Hispanic, mostly […]
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